The US movie industry claims online piracy is costing it billions of dollars in lost revenues. However, data released by TorrentFreak shows â€œBitTorrent piracy is rampant in Hollywoodâ€ where studios employees are busy pirating films.
*â€œHollywood isnâ€™t without â€˜sinâ€™ when it comes to piracy. The MPAA and others lobby very hard for anti-piracy measures, but canâ€™t even stop piracy in the offices of their own member studios,â€ Torrentfreak.com reported.

The website dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing claims â€œBitTorrent piracy is rampant in Hollywood.â€

Torrentfreak published some of the files that Hollywood studios were sharing; starting with Paramount Pictures whoâ€™s static IP-addresses were associated with the downloading of a wide variety of content. The indie production â€œBattle Forceâ€ was one of the movies shared, as well as the Lionsgate film â€œThe Hunger Gamesâ€. However, the list also included â€œHappy Feetâ€, a movie distributed by competitor Warner Bros.

*According to TorrentFreak, film insiders at Warner Bros. were also frequent BitTorrent users, with â€œa particular interest in adult entertainmentâ€ and â€œThe Expendables 2â€ among the titles that were allegedly downloaded via Warner Bros. IP-addresses.

The website said Sony Picture employees, among others, were sharing games, TV-shows and movies at work, such as 20th Century Foxâ€™s Ice Age: Continental Drift, and an episode of Top Chef.

*â€œThe above is no surprise of course,â€ TorrentFreak wrapped up, saying that last year the now defunct website YouHaveDownloaded had already revealed that BitTorrent was used at â€œvirtually every companyâ€.

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I still can't believe people still use torrents, they are just begging to get caught!

Is it possible they are using these torrents to collect ip addresses for lawsuits? In that case, it would make sense for them to originate from the film companies.

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Both are true, their employees are sharing movies and their security departments are data mining. One thing for sure, if the ip's that were posted are from people sharing, the shit is going to hit the fan when they find the source computers.

Like I said before, it's just insane to continue to even use torrents when your ip is broadcast to the world to see. My stupid nephew still uses it to download tons of anime and shows no matter how many times I've warned him.